Open Studio

to the advanced practice workshop with Rosalind Crisp & the workshop participants

Friday September 14th

15:00 – 16:00 h

free entrance

Advanced practice workshop

Morning Class 10:00 - 12:00 h

This method of ‘preparing the body’ involves: undoing fixed pathways; practicing dancing without holding tension;developing the ability to shift attention easily around the body, to engage any part at any time; opening up spaces for the imagination;

In the Afternnon 13:00 - 16:00 h

A deeper inquiry into some of the danse tools, in particular, work with
the senses, tools for shifting between sensation experiences and
dancing, and frameworks for watching/observing/responding and how these
interact.

Rosalind Crisp offers practical tools to pay attention to the act of
dancing and concrete ways of generating, and of perceiving, movement
from any part of the body, at any speed or level, with any force or
direction, for any duration... at any time. This work can deflect the
dancer from their habitual movement pathways, enlarge their range of
movement choices, and place them more solidly in the present. It offers
primary sources for movement that empower the dancer as creative agent.

Rosalind CrispAfter
early training in classical and contemporary dance, Rosalind studied
release, BMC® and Contact Improvisation at the EDDC in Arnhem,
Holland. She created the Omeo Dance studio in Sydney as a site for
her choreographic research for over 10 years, receiving a number
of awards and a choreographic fellowship from the Australia Council,
1999-2001. Since 2003 her company is based in Paris where she is a
choreographic associate of the Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson and
teaches and performs throughout Europe.

About Rosalind Crisps Practice

My practice of dancing moves between perception and action: between
the 'feedback' from the body-environment, and the 'feed-forward' of
conceptual reflection as movement choices are deconstructed. This lab
facilitates dance artists to engage with this practice.

The
preparation of the body will involve attention to the beginnings, to
breath, weight and the senses... To stimulate each person's inquiry I
will propose certain frameworks for perception, for example imagining
the body as made up of many independent and separable parts, or placing
the attention on two body surfaces that separate and come together on
the breath, or noticing each next shape that the body 'arrives' in...

Frameworks
for generating movement will also be proposed, what I call
choreographic improvisation. These are focuses for responding to what is
perceived and generating movement within particular limits, for
example, increasing, decreasing or maintaining the space between two
body parts, adding tone to only one body surface at a time, or shifting a
'shape' through space... tools to interrogate movement choices and to
wake up continual potential choice-making.

Being able to access
and combine a range of perceptual and generative tools in any one moment
might be where the fun is to be had, developing degrees of distance
from the tools, slipping between naming and not-naming...

Reference:
Rosalind Crisp's danse practice deals with a volatile group of
choreographic principles which guide the way a dancer makes movement.
Movements may come from any part of the body, at any speed or level,
with any force or direction, for any duration... at any time. It is
about dancing.www.omeodance.com